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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote: |
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> > And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the |
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> Magic |
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> > SysRq keys. Did <ctrl>-<alt>-<del> not do anything, or a single press of |
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> > the power button (which should send an ACPI shutdown signal, causing the |
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> > system to self-power-off)? |
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> Forgot to add this juicy bit to my last post: |
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> Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key anymore. |
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> I |
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> reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see Lenovo's |
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> point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world that |
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> ever |
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> used that key in the last 12 months and all of them are very au fait with |
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> Linux |
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Yuck - really? Not even as an unlabeled Alt function of a Print Screen |
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button? |
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Sounds like a new kernel patch needs to be introduced, which allows you to |
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select an alternative to the SysRq key for the magic commands... <sigh> |
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Stupid HW manufacturers... |
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-James |
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